a balloon for a blunderbuss by alastair reid, illustrated by bob gill, 1961 via childrensbookclub

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a balloon for a blunderbuss by alastair reid, illustrated by bob gill, 1961 via childrensbookclub
Fighting Dogs - The Price Of Grain (Poison Girls cover)
Wanna hear a Poison Girls cover done in a borderline-stadium-crust-style from the early 00's? Probably not, but I finally found this mp3 in my archives and this band was pretty important for me for a couple years, so here you go...
Maybe... can have shit in Detroit?
Historic wild rice restoration begins in Detroit River as tribal partners work to bring back sacred grain that disappeared from ancestral wa
[“Securing and preparing food, ensuring it’s safe to eat, being emotionally supportive, being considerate of other people’s complex needs, transporting people, being patient, and finding ways to laugh, be affectionate, have desire, cry, hug, and hold all take immense time and effort. So does navigating the information, bureaucracies, institutions, laws, and rules that regulate our bodies, relationships, and health.
Too many men with influence and power are willfully ignorant about what it takes to keep people alive and well, from the cradle to the grave. They know so little about the intense attention, emotional labor, mental load, and physical demands required to tend to other people, to bodies and their sustenance and well-being.
Because men buffered from intense care demands still make up the vast majority of our political leaders, senior corporate executives, and economists, care demands are chronically undervalued and misunderstood in resilience agendas. Instead, by unspoken and exploitative consensus, mothers, nurses, teachers, health aides, and other people who quietly do the messy work of caring are supposed to do it selflessly, ideally without complaining. At least half of the country genuinely believes women should sacrifice themselves to this crackpot scheme. Worse, as countless internet armchair experts are keen on perpetually and ridiculously pointing out, if women pay a personal price, so be it, because men go to war.
A powerful undercurrent of resilience today is a cultural hostility that maintains that if clamorous women want equality, then we must earn it on preexisting terms and by the standards men have always been held to. Women should sacrifice and be dedicated and ruthless if they intend to compete with men for jobs, money, and influence. Instead of protesting stubborn norms and resisting systemic inequalities, women—in the conventional mold of hardy and resilient men—are supposed to work hard, all the time, and be optimistic, gritty, and grateful.
In the face of obstacles, successful women and good girls know how to take control and turn challenges into opportunities; transform themselves and take a seat at the table. Resilience here is a therapeutic and decidedly capitalist self-management, which would include demonstrating the strength to recognize, for example, sexism as a problem, but to persevere, nonetheless. The Lean In, Confidence Code, and Girl Boss movements of the past ten years aren’t feminist as much as they are expressions of resilience along these lines.”]
soraya chemaly, from the resilience myth: new thinking on grit, strength, and growth after trauma, 2024
The Bridge (1898)
by Edwin Austin Abbey
Zilphia Horton (1910 – 1956) musician, community organizer, educator, Civil Rights activist, folklorist, and best known for her work with her husband Myles Horton at the Highlander Folk School.
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Listen - by Berenice Sambrano (1987), Mexican/Spanish (?)
Mirko Hanak, Czech
When John Coltrane knew he was dying, he asked for Albert Ayler and Ornette Coleman to play at his funeral. This is the only known recorded track by Ornette Coleman that day on St. Peter’s Lutheran Church on Lexington Avenue and 54th street, in Manhattan.
Ornette Coleman (alto saxophone), Charlie Haden (bass), David Izenzon (bass), Charles Moffet (drums)
cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it
"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."
-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
- Simone Weil
If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.
William Dudley "Big Bill" Haywood
From James Martin:
Dear friends: I've been thinking about this quote while reading some of the reactions to Pope Leo XIV's apostolic exhortation "Dilexi te." It's from Servant of God Dom Hélder Câmara, who served as Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, in Brazil.
Catholic prayer cards (19th - 20th centuries)
"Atom-bombed Mary", also known as Our Lady of Nagasaki.
It is a part of a wooden statue of Mother Mary that survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945. It was found in the ruins of Urakami Cathedral.
If you haven't lived around a specific type of Mexican or Italian or other generationally Catholic community I have no idea how to explain to people who haven't seen it like... Yes many of my peers are Catholic. No they are not Catholic. No I mean like they're VERY Catholic. No they're not even a LITTLE bit Catholic. Yes they do Catholic things. No they don't do any Catholic things. They're debilitatingly Catholic, yes. No, I don't think anyone could reasonably call them Catholic
"No I don't believe in God, no I don't believe in Heaven or Hell, that's ridiculous. I have no time for any of that. Church? On a Sunday? I get two days off a week and you want me to spend one of those days in a stuffy building and give away the money I spent five days earning? Ridiculous. Now please shut up so I can pray to the Virgin to give me the strength to not kill my coworker as well as to St. Cabrini so I can find a good parking spot behind the CVS tonight"
too perverted for the normies not perverted enough for the real perverts how am i supposed to make it in this crazy world